The Hammer Museum announced Thursday that its spring 2027 season will feature exhibitions examining Chicanx and queer Los Angeles, land art and works on paper, along with two new installations by international artists.
“Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful,” the first institutional retrospective of the Los Angeles artist’s work, will feature nearly 100 paintings, collages, prints, publications and other works spanning five decades, according to the museum.
Terrill’s work draws on the Chicano movement, queerness and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The exhibition will include his early silkscreens and works on paper, his “flat” paintings of the 1980s, later collages and realist paintings, and archival material from his magazine “Homeboy Beautiful,” museum officials said.
The exhibition will be on view April 4 through Sept. 5, 2027, before traveling to Wrightwood 659 in Chicago in the fall.
“Michelle Stuart: The Memory of Paper” will be the first institutional survey devoted exclusively to Stuart’s works on paper and her first solo museum presentation in her native Los Angeles, according to the museum.
The exhibition will include nearly 70 works, from sketches and prints to monumental rubbings, sculptural book objects and photographs. Stuart is known for site-responsive rubbings made by placing paper on the ground and using graphite or earth to record its topography, officials said.
It will be on view from April 4 through Aug. 22, 2027, then travel to New York University’s Grey Art Museum in the fall.
“Both of the Hammer’s spring exhibitions are exemplary of what the Hammer does best: creating new scholarship around significant artists of the last 50 years and laying a foundation for the art history of the future,” Hammer director Zoe Ryan said in a statement.
Ryan called Terrill “a beloved figure in Los Angeles” whose work is deeply connected to Chicanx and queer communities, and said Stuart’s work expands the idea of what a work on paper can be.
The museum also will present two Hammer Projects, marking the first Los Angeles solo exhibitions for Oriol Vilanova and Inga Somdyala. Both will open Feb. 6, 2027.
Vilanova will use 13,000 postcards from his archive to create a large-scale installation across the Hammer’s lobby wall, officials said. Somdyala will transform a gallery into a maritime vessel with a bright red sail and an immersive soundscape exploring place, culture and identity in post-apartheid South Africa.
The Hammer will hold a free public celebration April 3, 2027, featuring late-night gallery access and DJs in the museum courtyard.